Lost in Translation 4 - The Manukau-Kāwhia Sheet (episode four)
- Te Reo
- Documentary
- Māori
- NZ History
After Governor William Hobson was sidelined by a stroke, Colonial Secretary Willoughby Shortland stepped in and sent the Treaty of Waitangi south, in the hope of finding more signatures. The fourth episode of Mike King’s Treaty discovery series sets out to find where the sheet was signed on the Manukau Harbour. King learns of an unfulfilled prophecy, and why Ngāti Whātua chief Āpihai Te Kawau agreed to sign. Then King crosses the harbour and uses his mission as an excuse to visit another food festival — in Kāwhia, where he learns about the chiefs who saw trade opportunities in the incoming "great white wave".

Photo and info on the Manukau-Kāwhia sheet, NZ History website
NZ Geographic story on the Manukau Harbour, September 2006
Read the text of the Treaty of Waitangi, NZ History website
NZ History pages on the Treaty
More on the nine sheets of the Treaty of Waitangi, NZ History website
Section on the Treaty of Waitangi, Te Ara website
Section on the Treaty of Waitangi, Archives New Zealand website
Profile of Bishop Jean Baptiste François Pompallier, Te Ara
Profile of Ngāi Tawake chief Rewa (aka Mānu), NZ History
Profile of Commander Willoughby Shortland, 1966 Encyclopedia of New Zealand













